Jeffrey Cramer lives and breathes Thoreau. He may know more about the bard at Walden Pond than anyone else alive.​ -Jim Flemming, Wisconsin Public Radio

Photo by Tom Hersey (2015)

​​Jeffrey S. Cramer is the editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition (Yale University Press, 2004). A winner of a 2004 NOBA (National Outdoor Book Award) and a co-winner of the Boston Authors Club's 2005 Julia Ward Howe Special Award, Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition has been called a "handsome, 'all-things-Walden' edition" by the Boston Globe. USA Today said "Cramer's side notes are like short, illuminating conversations." The Quotable Thoreau (Princeton University Press, 2011) was a recipient of an Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities in 2011.

Jeff's other works include I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (Yale University Press, 2007), The Maine Woods: A Fully Annotated Edition (Yale University Press, 2009), and The Portable Thoreau (Penguin, 2012). Essays by Henry D. Thoreau: A Fully Annotated Edition (Yale University Press) was published in 2013. His The Portable Emerson was published by Penguin in 2014. Read more...

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